OSX Alarm Clock
Stuck away from home with a dead mobile phone battery, I needed an alarm clock—no sign of it in Date and Time.
The solution: use iCal on the MacBook. Set an event at the time you want the alarm. Set up an alarm action to open a suitably noisy audio file (which will open with iTunes if you have the default setup).
Make sure you set the alarm to go off on date (not 15 minutes beforehand as I first did). Make sure the volume is set high, headphones removed. Leave the lid open and, preferably, power connected. The alarm will wake the laptop from sleep, and play your song.
Update 2009-02-15 In Leopard 10.5.6 the alarm does not wake your computer from sleep :-( In System Preferences >> Energy Saver >> Schedule, set your computer to wake a couple of minutes before the alarm goes off.
If you subscribe to any external calendars, set iCal offline — otherwise any alerts complaining that some calendar is unreachable will prevent the alarm from sounding.
39 comments:
thanks, this is so obvious i've missed it for years (and resorted to horrible software instead).
+1 internets to you!
thank u :D
omg, thankyou soooooooooo much. How in gods green earth did i not think of that. Thanks again
Finding this was great considering I am traveling 2,000 miles away from home and my cell died!
ThankS!!!!
Thanks, its so obvious! but I had never thought of it! !
Genius !
Thanks so much - lifesaver!
ahhh you saved my life!!!!!!
thanks
why have so many people not thought of this?! I'm in the exact same situation if there is anything that you should consider a useful app it's one that is provided with your os!
Wow! Thank you for posting this.
Like everybody else, I don't know why didn't I thought about this before.
<3
As Bill and MrH said, this is so obvious. I could kick myself for not thinking of it myself. Brilliant stuff, mate.
Genius
Hi all,
could anyone tell me why my computer does not wake from sleep when i set a new event-alarm? is it only the screen tha awakes in case or should the HD also? what am i doing wrong?
I just tried this and it doesn't wake up my computer from sleep :(
Since !0.5.6 it seems that the iCal alarm isn't enough to wake the Leopard.
Setting the Energy Saver to wake the computer is a kludge - but it works!
Genius times two!!!
Excellent!
I'm going to use this when I'm working on the couch and I just get sleeeeepy and need to take a nap. In that case, I'm not going to change the Energy Saver settings, but simply turn on the Jiggler app if I only want to rest my eyes for awhile.
WOW.hahahahaha i use iCal all the time 24/7 and for some reason didnt think of it like all the other idiots on this page. thx lol
Fantastic! This post just saved me from driving back across Cardiff to pick up my phone from Squidge Media HQ!
Thanks!
Thanks!
Most helpful thing i read in a long time. Thanksomuch
Thanks. I am in Nairobi without a alarm clock or cell phone but I have my Macbook.
Forget iCal. This is all you need and it's free.
Thanks a lot! Useful since my cell alarm didn't go off this morning, I have set my mac to do the job as well! great.
Thank you
Thanks, I was not wanting to get an absurd app. This is great!!
Maybe I'm an idiot but I cannot get this to work. I set it up and the alarm never goes off. Any ideas?
to wake computer use energy save preferences and schedule computer to wake up as said in the post! but you need to leave the power cable connected and the LID up or else the mac wont wake up!!!
rock on. best advice.
I quite possible love you! Thanks a million. Now i get to boogie to american boy first thing in the morning.
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Miche
Hi
Did help me when I needed it gr8 post .
Thanks
Kalz(:
i'm hoping this will work on snow leopard too. if i plug it in and just turn my brightness down to 0 iCal should just make the noise anyway shouldn't it?
Thank you SO MUCH! Much more elegant than the Python tricks I was resorting to!
omg...u saved me...now your my chuck norris :D
u r perfect, thank u so much...
u r perfect, thank u so much...
saved my life man!
Thank you very much for this! So simple to do, and like everyone else said I feel stupid for not thinking of this! Thanks very much again! :)
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